194 OAKS. WHITE WILLOW 



Quercus Ilex, L. Holme Oak. About 30 40 feet in 

 height, with a somewhat narrow rounded-ovoid crown, 

 dense grey-green foliage, and a slate-coloured finely 

 fissured bark cut into small quadrangular scales; but 

 often shrubby. Shoots greyish tomentose, passing to 

 ash-grey smooth branches. Leaves spinose-toothed or 

 entire. 



Quercus Suber, L. Cork Oak (Fig. 93). Evergreen tree 

 30 40 feet or more, with irregular rounded crown, some- 

 what resembling Quercus Ilex, but with a deeply fissured 

 very thick corky bark. 



## Deciduous trees. 



[For (88) 8 General hue of branches and 



seep. 197.] stem grey, slate colour, or olive, 



and not red-brown. Bark fis- 

 sured but not prominently scaly 

 on the ridges. 



[For (A A) A General hue of branches and 



seep. 196.] twigs olive; young shoots 



grey hoary. Leaves lanceolate. 

 Flowers in erect catkins; fruits 

 capsular and seeds small co- 

 mose. Buds with one scale 

 only. Often as pollards. 



d Leaves silky pubescent, white 

 beneath [except when old\. 

 Twigs not fragile at the 

 articulations. 



Salix alba, L. White Willow (Fig. 94). Tree 60 feet or 

 so in height, but rarely seen over 30 40 feet, and often 

 pollarded. Crown elongated, rounded-ovoid, with numerous 

 branches and long twigs, which are olive and polished; 

 shoots silky pubescent, as are the leaves, giving the foliage 

 a peculiar silvery-grey appearance. Bark deeply and 

 coarsely fissured. 



